Eid shopping spree has not yet gained momentum in the city in the wake of hot and sultry weather persisting in the city since last Saturday. The searing heatwave that had already claimed more than 1200 lives in the metropolis has, so far, kept the shoppers away from markets and as such sale of both the ready-made garments as well as cloth has dropped, instead of picking up in the first 10 days of Ramazan, market sources said, adding that even some teenagers who usually used to hang out at the malls were also conspicuous by their absence nowadays.
Though most of shopping centres nowadays present a deserted look during day times, few families could be seen visiting major shopping centres such as University Road's Samama shopping mall, Tariq Road, Dolmen Center, Bhadarabad, Saddar, Hyderi market, Jamia Cloth market, after Iftar.
Shopkeepers dealing in garments at major shopping malls and stores also attribute drop in sales of ready-made garments to the searing heat that had gripped the city since last Saturday. Cloth merchants also said that their sales have not yet picked up in spite of the fact that Eid-ul-Fitr was now only 18 or 19 days away. "As a matter of fact most of the families knowing that shopping malls were also facing power cuts and unscheduled loadshedding preferring to stay indoors, rather doing shopping in the current hot and humid weather," a shopkeeper remarked. However, most of shopkeepers are optimistic that shopping spree will gain momentum in the first week of July as the temperature in the metropolis has started subsiding.
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